Introducing Yesterday's Classics Ebook Treasury, Volume 2

A whole new set of Yesterday's Classics ebooks is now available for your
reading pleasure. Included among the 106 titles are the 13 sections of
the Handbook of Nature Study by Anna Botsford Comstock and 6 fairy tale
anthologies in the Fairy Tales Too Good To Miss series, one for each age
from 5 to 10. With fifteen genres represented in the collection, there is
something for everyone. Click
here for more information about this new collection, as well as a list
of the titles included.

Introduction

Your headquarters for the best classic literature for children,
Yesterday's Classics offers a rich collection of books
from a wide variety of genres, with special emphasis on
history, literature, and natural history.
While used extensively as school reading, Yesterday's Classics titles
work equally well as independent reading, and family read-alouds.

High standards govern everything Yesterday's Classics does,
from selection of books to attractive presentation of texts
in whatever form you choose to read them.
Yesterday's Classics makes titles available as printed books,
as ebooks in both Kindle and EPUB format,
and as online texts through its new Gateway to the Classics.

Careful Selection Criteria

Since 1999 Yesterday's Classics has been carefully selecting
for republication the best of the children's books
first published a century ago when a Christian worldview
and high standards of literary excellence were the norm.
Only books that

incorporate text of high literary quality,

use story to engage the reader,

cultivate the moral imagination,

awaken an interest in the out of doors,

furnish heroes worthy of emulation, and

stimulate powers of observation

meet
our standards for selection.

Print editions

Yesterday's Classics offers 225 titles in high-quality
paperback editions, with text pleasingly formatted
in modern easy-to-read type. Illustrations from the
original volumes are included, rendered in black and
white in these editions.
Dozens of Yesterday's Classics titles have been adopted
by top curriculum developers including Ambleside Online,
Heart of Dakota, Living Books Curriculum, Milestones Academy,
and Tapestry of Grace.

Many of the titles we offer have been out of print
for decades and so have been hard to find. Now your children
can enjoy these books that delighted generations of children
a century ago.

Ebooks in Kindle and EPUB Format

All of Yesterday's Classics ebooks are crafted
with the same care and attention as our print editions.
Each ebook includes a clickable table of contents,
and clean text, carefully proofread, and attractively formatted.
Illustrations from original books, many in color,
are included. In 2011
Yesterday's Classics Ebook Package
of 225 Titles won the Blue Ribbon Award
for "Best Homeschool Resource" from TOS Homeschool Crew 2010-2011.

New ebooks are published weekly through Gateway to the Classics.
Take a look at the
list of titles published so far this year.

Innovative Platform for Mobile Devices

In step with the move to mobile devices,
Yesterday's Classics is now introducing its
Gateway to the Classics.
On this platform the individual can customize content
for each member of his family, arrange the elements
he selects into an attractive display, and tailor its presentation.

Getting started with this custom curriculum builder
is straightforward for those who select
from the 300 blocks currently available in a wide variety of genres.
Combining a few of these blocks
(each of which has a full school year's worth of readings
set out week by week) results in a curriculum plan
customized for a particular child.

Users who want to exercise more control can create their own blocks,
drawing on the thousands of stories and poems
from Gateway to the Classics' ever-growing collection of online texts.
Other elements support grouping of books into virtual bookshelves,
daily practice of memory work, and integration of text and audio.
New content from a variety of genres is added weekly.

Free Online Texts

Since 1999 Yesterday's Classics has been offering free
online texts through the
Baldwin Project at mainlesson.com. While
this site will continue to be supported, no new texts will be added.
All new development will be at Gateway to the Classics. Take a look
at this
comparison between the sites to learn about the differences
between them.